Assistive Technology

Telecommunication

• Zoom (in progress)
• A Video Phone makes ASL communication easy
• Sorenson Video Phone

ASL

• Online Sign Language Dictionary (list)
• Signing Savvy, “your sign language resource” allows the user to type in a word or phrase and watch it in ASL. It shows some variations, and could be a good site for reference purposes. Because signs may vary from region to region, these are only examples of possible signs, and users may wish to look into local resources for learning sign language as well.

• ASL Core, signs for academic use.
• Signing Families has materials to teach ASL to various groups, such as emergency responders.
• Family Health Reference to ASL, how ASL works, phrases for first responders, and interpreting information.
• Sign Language Book Creator

Captions

• Live Captioning for conferences, from the Disability Ministry Committee newsletter The Voice.

• Closed Captioning Best Practices and Legal Requirements
  
• FCC Guide to Closed Captioning on Television
• “Bringing Captioning into the 21st Century”, Kevin Kilroy in CustomerThink, January 2018
• History of captioning: "Boulder played role in closed captioning"
• Web Captioning Overview from WebAIM
• Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning (CCAC) YouTube channel
• 3PlayMedia
• Transcription and Captioning standards
• Everything you need to know to transcribe video and create closed captions
• Quick Start to Captioning, recorded webinar with transcript
• Captioning YouTube Videos
• How to Caption YouTube Videos
  
• Adding captions to Facebook video
• MAGpie, a program for generating captions
• CADET, a program for generating captions provided by WGBH
• “NoMoreCraptions”: what bad captions look like, a good video for explaining the need to avoid automatic captions
  
• CaptionFish: Captioned movie finder

Assisted Listening Devices

• Hearing Loop.org, "Getting hard of hearing people in the loop"
• How Hearing Loops Work
  
• Hearing Loops Don't “Just Happen”